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Book Proceedings of the First European Conference of Iranian Studies Held in Turin  September 7th 11th  1987 by the Societas Iranologica Europaea  Middle and New Iranian studies

Download or read book Proceedings of the First European Conference of Iranian Studies Held in Turin September 7th 11th 1987 by the Societas Iranologica Europaea Middle and New Iranian studies written by Gherardo Gnoli and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS  2003  Volume 14  Old Tibetan Studies

Download or read book Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS 2003 Volume 14 Old Tibetan Studies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Tibetan Studies, edited by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, is an inquiry into secular and religious Old Tibetan documents from Central Asia and Tibet. The volume is written with the intent to confront facts and textualization and contribute to the clarification of particular aspects of the administrative and legislative organization, the ecclesiastical institution, and the religious, monastic, intellectual and material culture of Old Tibet and its borderlands. The material is critically examined from different perspectives, focusing on classical disciplines (history, linguistics, lexicography, philology, codicology and diplomatics). With contributions by Roland Bielmeier, Anne Chayet, Helga Uebach, Kazushi Iwao, Siglinde Dietz, Yoshiro Imaeda, Bianca Horlemann, Brandon Dotson,Tsuguhito Takeuchi and Cristina Scherrer-Schaub.

Book The Iranian Languages

Download or read book The Iranian Languages written by Gernot Windfuhr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iranian languages form the major eastern branch of the Indo-European group of languages, itself part of the larger Indo-Iranian family. Estimated to have between 150 and 200 million native speakers, the Iranian languages constitute one of the world’s major language families. This comprehensive volume offers a detailed overview of the principle languages which make up this group: Old Iranian, Middle Iranian, and New Iranian. The Iranian Languages is divided into fifteen chapters. The introductory chapters by the editor present a general overview and a detailed discussion of the linguistic typology of Iranian. The individual chapters which follow are written by leading experts in the field. These provide the reader with concise, non-technical descriptions of a range of Iranian languages. Each chapter follows the same pattern and sequence of topics, taking the reader through the significant features not only of phonology and morphology but also of syntax; from phrase level to complex sentences and pragmatics. Ample examples on all levels are provided with detailed annotation for the non-specialist reader. In addition, each chapter covers lexis, sociolinguistic and typological issues, and concludes with annotated sample texts. This unique resource is the ideal companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and language. It will also be of interest to researchers or anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistics anthropology and language development. Gernot Windfuhr is Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Michigan; he has published widely on Persian and Iranian languages and linguistics and related languages, as well as on other aspects of Iranian culture including Persian literature and Pre-Islamic Iranian religions.

Book Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies  Old and Middle Iranian studies

Download or read book Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies Old and Middle Iranian studies written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and published by Dr Ludwig Reichert. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 3rd European Conference of Iranian Studies, at which more than 130 papers were presented, was held in Cambridge in 1995. A selection of the best contributions will be published in two volumes, of which the second will be concerned with Iranian culture in the Islamic period. This first volume, which is illustrated with 17 plates, contains 18 important and thought-provoking papers - 15 in English and 3 in French - on Old and Middle Iranian. The papers, grouped thematically under the headings "Religions and Culture of ancient Iran" and "Texts and languages", cover a diversity of themes relating to Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Mithraism; Sasanian history, glyptic and numismatics; and Iranian philology, linguistics, and dialectology.

Book The Literature of Pre Islamic Iran

Download or read book The Literature of Pre Islamic Iran written by Ronald E. Emmerick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject. This 18-volume, authoritative survey reflects the stature and significance of Persian literature as the single most important accomplishment of the Iranian experience.The main object of this companion volume is to provide an overview of the most important extant literary sources in Old and Middle Iranian languages - the languages of the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian periods culminating in the rich resource of Pahlavi Persian which fed so directly into the language of the later great Persian poets. It will be an indispensable source for the literary traditions of pre-Islamic Iran and an invaluable guide to the subject.

Book Proceedings of the     European Conference of Iranian Studies

Download or read book Proceedings of the European Conference of Iranian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo European Linguistics

Download or read book Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo European Linguistics written by Jared Klein and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.

Book Iranian Languages and Texts from Iran and Turan

Download or read book Iranian Languages and Texts from Iran and Turan written by R. E. Emmerick and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Memorial Volume is dedicated to one of the most prolific and renowned scholars in the field of Iranian Studies, the late Professor Ronald E. Emmerick, who held the chair of Iranian Studies in Hamburg until his untimely death in 2001. The volume consists of thirty-three papers, written by some of the foremost scholars in the field of Iranian Studies. The articles are essentially concerned with Old, New and especially Middle Iranian languages and texts, reflecting the predominant scholarly interests of Ronald Emmerick, whose reasearches were also directed towards Indian and Tibetan Studies. Nine papers deal with the Khotanese and Tumshuquese language, one of Emmericks main ? elds of research. The volume is accompanied by an updated Bibliography and Indices of quotations and of words.

Book Languages of Iran  Past and Present

Download or read book Languages of Iran Past and Present written by D. N. MacKenzie and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the table of contents: C.G. Cereti, Some Notes on the ?kand Guman?g WizarI. Colditz, Zur Adaption zoroastrischer Terminologie in Manis ?abuhraganA. Degener, The significance of the date palmPh. Gignoux, A propos de l'anthroponymie religieuse d'epoque sassanideGh. Gnoli, Further notes on Avestand geographyPh. Huyse, Ein erneuter Datierungsversuch fur den Ubergang vom Schluss-y der mittelpersischen Inschriften zum Endstrich im Buchpahlavi (6.-7. Jh.)Ph. Kreyenbroek, Yezidism and its Sacred Literature: Eastern and Western PerceptionsG. Lazard, Structures d'actances dans les langues irano-aryennes modernesM. Macuch, Language and Law: Linguistic Peculiarities in Sasanian JurisprudenceB. Meisterernst, D. Meisterernst-Durkin, Some remarks on the Chinese and Sogdian SCEA. Panaino, The "Rook" and the "Queen" Some Lexicographic Remarks about the Sasanian Chess PiecesL. Paul, The language of the ?ahname in historical and dialectical perspectiveCh. Reck, Reste einer soghdischen Version von Huyadagman I in der Form eines Responsoriums zwischen Erwahltem und HorerM. Schwartz, On Khwarezmian Loss of -R-Sh. Shaked, Iranian words retrieved from AramaicD. Shapira, Pahlavi FlowersN. Sims-Williams, Fr. de Blois, The Bactrian calendar: new material and new suggestions

Book Language Diversity in Iran

Download or read book Language Diversity in Iran written by Charles G. Häberl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current companion will offer a survey of the Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Turkic languages in contact with Iranian languages. Comparatively few of Iran's minority languages are well-documented or even widely known outside of a small cadre of specialists. A volume that organizes sketches of the non-Iranian languages of Iran offers a unique perspective on the history and structure of the Iranian language.

Book Exegisti Monumenta

    Book Details:
  • Author : Werner Sundermann
  • Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9783447059374
  • Pages : 644 pages

Download or read book Exegisti Monumenta written by Werner Sundermann and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2009 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of forty articles dedicated to one of the most distinguished contemporary iranists, Nicholas Sims-Williams, on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday on 11th April 2009. It includes an essay on Sims-Williams' outstanding contributions to Iranian studies, especially Sogdian and Bactrian, a list of his publications, editions of various texts written in Sogdian, Khotanese, Parthian, Middle Persian, and Avestan and articles on Old Persian, Middle Persian, New Persian, Bactrian, Balochi, Tati, Judeo-Persian, Caucasian, Uighur philology, linguistics and iconography. The book is illustrated by numerous plates. From the table of contents (40 contributions) A.D.H. Bivar, The Rukhkh, Giant Eagle of the Southern Seas F. de Blois, A Sasanian Silver Bowl A. Cantera, On the History of the Middle Persian Nominal Inflection C.G. Cereti, The Pahlavi Signatures on the Quilon Copper Plates (Tabula Quilonensis) J. Cheung, Two Notes on Bactrian I. Colditz, The Parthian "Sermon on happiness" J. Elfenbein, Eastern Hill Balochi H. Falk, The Name of Vema Takhtu P. Gignoux, Les relations interlinguistiques de quelques termes de la pharmacopee antique.

Book Persian Origins

Download or read book Persian Origins written by Ludwig Paul and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D. Durkin-Meisterernst, Late Features in Middle Persian Texts from Turfan, T.E. Gindin, The Tafs-r of Ezekiel: Four Copyists or Four Authors?, J. Gippert, Early New Persian as a Medium of Spreading Islam, E.M. Jeremias, The Formation of Early New Persian Poetry, A. de Jong, Pa-zand and "retranscribed" Pahlavi: On the Philology and History of Late Zoroastrian Literature, J. Josephson, Nominal Sentences and Copula in Middle and Early New Persian, G. Lazard, Du pehlevi au persan: diachronie ou diatopie?, D.N. MacKenzie, The Missing Link, M. Maggi, New Persian Glosses in East Syriac Texts of the Eighth to Tenth Centuries, P. Orsatti, SyroPersian Formulas in Poetic Form in Baptism Liturgy, L. Paul, Early JudaeoPersian in a Historical Perspective: The Case of the Prepositions be, u, pa(d), and the Suffix ra, S. Shaked, Early JudaeoPersian Texts. With Notes on a Commentary to Genesis, D. Shapira, JudaeoPersian Translations of Old Persian Lexica: A Case of Linguistic Discontinuity, W. Sundermann, Ein manichaischer Lehrtext in neupersischer Sprache, D. Weber, Die PahlaviOstraca von Ca-l Tarxa-nE'qabad

Book History and the Hebrew Bible

Download or read book History and the Hebrew Bible written by Hans M. Barstad and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, Hans M. Barstad deals thoroughly with the recent history debate, and demonstrates its relevancy for the study of ancient Israelite history and historiography. He takes an independent stand in the heated maximalist/minimalist debate on the historicity of the Hebrew Bible. Vital to his understanding is the necessity to realize the narrative nature of the ancient Hebrew and of the Near Eastern sources. Equally important is his claim that stories, too, may convey positivistic historical "facts." The other major topic he deals with in the book is the actual history of ancient Judah in the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods. Here, the author makes extensive use of extant ancient Near Eastern sources, both textual and archaeological, and he puts much weight on economic aspects. He shows that the key to understanding the role of Judah in the 1st millennium lays in the proper evaluation of Judah and its neighbouring city states within their respective imperial contexts. A proper understanding of the history of Judah during the 6th century BCE, consequently, can only be obtained when Judah is studied as a part of the much wider Neo-Babylonian imperial policy.

Book Judah and the Judeans in the Neo Babylonian Period

Download or read book Judah and the Judeans in the Neo Babylonian Period written by Oded Lipschits and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2003 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the outcome of an international conference held at Tel Aviv University, May 29-31, 2001. The idea for the conference germinated at the fifth Transeuphratene colloquy in Paris in March 2000. The Tel Aviv conference was organized in order to encourage investigation into the obscure five or six decades preceding the Persian conquests in the latter part of the 6th century. The essays here are organized in 5 parts: (1) The Myth of the Empty Land Revisited; (2) Cult, Priesthood, and Temple; (3) Military and Governmental Aspects; (4) Archaeological Perspectives on the 6th Century B.C.E.; and (5) Exiles and Foreigners in Egypt and Babylonia. Contributors: H. M. Barstad, B. Oded, L. S. Fried, S. Japhet, J. Blenkinsopp, G. N. Knoppers, Y. Amit, D. Edelman, Y. Hoffman, R. H. Sack, D. Vanderhooft, J. W. Betlyon, A. Lemaire, C. E. Carter, O. Lipschits, A. Zertal, J. R. Zorn, B. Porten, and R. Zadok.

Book Aramaic Graffiti from Hatra

Download or read book Aramaic Graffiti from Hatra written by Marco Moriggi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graffiti are an often neglected but crucial witness to everyday life of ancient civilizations. The Aramaic graffiti from Hatra (North Iraq) can make an invaluable contribution in this sense, distributed as they were in various buildings throughout this city which flourished between the 1st and the 3rd century AD. Thanks to an effective interaction between epigraphy and archaeology, Marco Moriggi and Ilaria Bucci offer a thorough analysis of the Aramaic graffiti from Hatra as documented by the Archive of the Missione Archeologica Italiana (Turin). In addition to the edition of 48 published and 37 unpublished graffiti, this study further includes the concordances of numbers of all Hatran texts published so far and full archaeological information about the graffiti.

Book Religious Themes and Texts of Pre Islamic Iran and Central Asia

Download or read book Religious Themes and Texts of Pre Islamic Iran and Central Asia written by Gherardo Gnoli and published by Dr Ludwig Reichert. This book was released on 2003 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains forty-one papers dedicated to the distinguished Iranianist by colleagues, friends and former students, and a complete bibliography of the dedicatee. The papers deal with a variety of themes relating to Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Christianity, Buddhism and the multifarious religious history of pre-Islamic Iran approached mainly, but not exclusively, from a historical and philological point of view. The volume also contains a number of previously unpublished or untranslated religious texts as well as re-editions and new translations. The papers cover all Old and Middle Iranian languages, New Persian and other New Iranian languages.